THE LEAST SANDPIPER. 



drab or grayish buff, speckled and spotted with deep chestnut and purplish gray. 

 Av. size, 1. 15 x .85 (29.2 X21.1). 



General Range. — The whole of North and South America, breeding north of 

 the United States. 



Range in Ohio. — Common migrant. 



that one is permitted to gaze 

 time. Not soon shall I forget 

 a certain brickyard pond on a 



IT is with a distinct sense of privilege 

 upon a company of these elfin waders at mea 

 a Sunday stroll which led past the corner 

 bright May after- 

 noon. A tiny babel 

 of soft peeping had 

 given us warning of 

 what we might ex- 

 pect to see, if we 

 managed to steal up 

 to the edge of the 

 shallow cut uin ih- 

 served. By exercis- 

 ing care and pa- 

 tience, both my wife 

 and 1 succeeded in 

 seating ourselves on 

 the near brink with- 

 out alarming the lit- 

 tle strangers. They 

 seemed to accept us 

 as a part of that gra- 

 cious horizon which 

 is the birthright of 

 both innocence and 

 optimism. So con- 

 fiding were they thai 

 at a distance of thir- 

 ty feet they not only 

 went on in theii 

 quest of fond, 1ml 

 one had a sound nap 

 on shore, a Sunday 

 nap, with his head 

 tucked snugly un- 

 der his wing. 



In their search for food the Peeps appeared to depend entirely upon thei 

 bright eve- to spy tidbits and nnguessable delicacies in the shallow water 



